How to Install and Configure K3S

calendarOct 1, 2023 · 1 min read · AWX Automation Linux Containers Home Lab  ·
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K3s is a CNCF sandbox project that delivers a lightweight yet powerful certified Kubernetes distribution. K3S is a lightweight Kubernetes, easy to install, Simple but powerful "batteries-included" features have been added, such as:

  • local storage provider
  • service load balancer
  • helm controller
  • Traefik ingress controller

Install K3S on Rocky Linux 8

Prerequisites

Operating Systems:

  • If you are using RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, follow these steps.

Hardware:

SpecMinumumRecommended
CPU1 Core2 Cores
Memory512 MB1 GB

Installation:

K3s provides an installation script that is a convenient way to install it as a service on systemd based systems. This script is available at https://get.k3s.io.

Since i am using this installation method, will just run:

1curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
  1. Login to Dev_Machine using root credentials and run the command
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  2. after few minutes the script will install the required packages and completes the installation
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  3. change the permissions of k3s config file
1chmod 644 /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml

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4. check the k3s service status using systemctl
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5. check the status of nodes
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5. check the kubectl verstion and status of Pods
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Note

This is not complete Installation, configuration and Administration of Kubernetes. This just allows me to run AWX Operator

Watch the video on How to setup K3S kubernetes cluster